Model Number: BBALWMBSFJILQGDLDA
Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
While The Great Gatsby is a highly specific portrait of American society during the Roaring Twenties, its story is also one that has been told hundreds of times, and is perhaps as old as America itself: a man claws his way from rags to riches, only to find that his wealth cannot afford him the privileges ...more »
Model Number: BBR0553900773DLDA
Author: THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
With their call forsimplicity, simplicity, simplicity!, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in tis volume ...more »
Model Number: BBHC0061198773DLDA
Author: Crane, Stephen
The stories and novels representing Stephen Crane's art at its finest. Includes The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Monster, The Blue Hotel, and other short sto... more » more »
Model Number: BBR9780553902532DLDA
Author: Anonymous
Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as an incisive introduction ...more »
Model Number: BBSS074324639XDLDA
Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the first step American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised the charm and beauty of the ...more »